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What's the correlation between low-income/poverty and obesity?
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Lower food quality: Obesity also clusters by zip codes, as does diabetes and hypertension. Eating lower quality (higher fat and salt) diets results in more obesity. Lower quality food seems to be cheaper in the western world. Also recreational habits and participation rates are worse in impoverished coommunities.
Answered 10/3/2016
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